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It's been nearly a year and a half since my last blog post here on Destructoid.
There's been several reasons for that. The first and most prominent being that I just graduated from college and my senior year was full of sch...
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I've only begun dipping my toe into the Guild Wars 2 beta that's been running this weekend, and I'm already impressed with the design of the world. It takes a special sort of game to cause me to stop and admire my surroundi...
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I departed for PAX East 2011 with no previous convention experience and no idea what to expect. I had few goals other than "enjoy yourself", check out the 3DS, and attend at least the Community panel to support Hamza (or...
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(Author's note: This article was originally posted back during the switch over to the new Destructoid format. When the site was reverted to the old style of blogs, it got lost in the transfer and I only now found the time t...
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Music is one of the primary methods by which video games evoke an emotional response in the player. In order to elicit the response that the designers want, a piece of music is usually played during an event that ap...
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”Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the su...
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There are two types of “epic” boss themes in video game soundtracks: those that say “Oh my god we’re facing down an avatar of phenomenal cosmic power that could easily grind us into dust if we piss it off”; and those that...
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
-Robert Jordan
The Undead have been sh...
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Chaos Rings, an iPhone exclusive RPG has been released in the App Store Touch Arcade has first impressions here.
Gameplay Video here.
At $12.99 it's a bit pricey for the App Store, but for those interested I'll see if I can post an App Store link.
Chaos Rings: App Store
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My article on Final Fantasy VI’s “Dancing Mad” got a lot more attention than what I was expecting, and it seemed like a lot of the readers in the comments wanted to see me write more on the subject of video game soundtracks...
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YouTuber Aknotholeresident thought it would be a good idea to grab his Sonic plushie and watch the debut Sonic 4 trailer, insanity ensues. He has since removed the video from his YouTube channel, but not before a Team Fortress 2 fan got a hold of it, hilarity ensues.
Sonic fanboys need to STFUAPG!!!
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(Im sorry if this is boring or whatever. Also, grammar)
Hello people, Ive been a member of Destructoid for a couple years now. I just never made a Intro because I was either lazy or just didn't have the time because of schoo...
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Spring is upon us here in the Northern hemisphere, and with Spring comes warm weather, MTV showing footage of topless, underage girls on break, hay fever, and of course Easter, which is officially celebrated tomorrow. This ...
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Finally, after more than two months of delays, the seventh episode of the web series There Will Be Brawlwas released on The Escapist this Friday.
And holy shit, it is definitely worth the wait. My jaw was open for about the...
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I won a combo pack during the twitter party with Dinomas. The poster signed by Eisuke Ogura (the illustrator of
the game) came about a week ago. I just got the game this morning. I've played it all day, and all I have to say...
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After finishing a game that I liked, I often wished for a sequel.
After countless bad spin-offs or sequels to good games, I've refined that desire a bit. No matter how much I loved Shining Force I and II or how bad I want...
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Hello, my name is SWE3tMadness, and I suck at strategy.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I know simple tricks like “Always aim for the eye,” and Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, but that just means my whole meta-game principle pretty ...
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Activision finally announced the final tracks of the Guitar Hero 5 setlist today, so - as I said in my earlier post - here are the video links (and commentary) to go with them. Enjoy!
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite (Eh, not the...
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The full setlist for Guitar Hero 5 hasn’t been released yet, but I’m running into the same problem as the GHWT tracks: I have no utter clue about what half these songs are like. So like the GHWT setlist, I did some researc...
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It may not look like much, but as far as I know this is the only picture available of the art shown off at Miyamoto's roundtable at E3. Let the Internet matlocking commence.
Picture credit goes to Nintendo World Report.
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Throughout the years, Mario has faced off with his nemesis, Bowser, countless times. And from the first time we dueled the spiky behemoth on a rickety bridge over lava, to the time when we booted him into a sun at the cente...
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Hi! As I'm new and trying not to suck,here is my semi-manditory intro blog,yay! ...So,my IRL name is Doug and I'm a 35 yr old man-child from Springfield,MO (I live 2 blocks from The Simpsons,no lie :p ) I've been into gaming...
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These are not my Top Ten games, in fact some of these choices are downright bad. These are just ten games that influenced me as a gamer. While there are other games that are more influential, these ones have a special place...
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((Some minor spoilers for those who haven’t seen the movie or read the graphic novel.))
This movie is a miracle.
By all rights, fans should hate it and everything it stands for. Zach Snyder has taken source material akin...
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((Author's Note: Sorry about the huge wall of text, but I can't find any funny pictures to break up this article. If you want something less wordy and more snarky, check out my review of the movie Resident Evil: Degeneration ...
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Here we go again...
So for Christmas, I finally couldn’t say no to a 20 dollar price tag on Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and picked it up to play over break. After carving a bloody swath through rural Europe (and having an...
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Satch Boogie has been FC'd on Expert Guitar for GH:WT. Which means that now every guitar part for every song on the official setlist has been completed perfectly by the community at some point.
And it only took roughly a ...
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After 21 months of polls, primaries, and nonstop coverage of the candidate's fashion sense, it's finally over. And even though I didn't support the man who won, he still achieved his victory fair and sqaure. Obama is now ou...
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Well, in case you haven’t heard, Guitar Hero: World Tour finally hit stores last night. However, some very lucky players managed to get their hands on copies even earlier, and one of them has already posted video previews of ...
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